Research Article

Fast Stiffness Matrix Calculation for Nonlinear Finite Element Method

Table 5

The displacements (in m) at green nodes using the linear FEM for the third experiment. The displacements at blue nodes are zero.

Node Displacement- Displacement- Displacement-

5 5.004 230.5 7.241
6 −0.4613 239.9 0.01444
9 −2.3 231.8 6.271
10 −4.602 237.5 −0.1437
41 0.5991 234.5 −0.17